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• Use TPC Database Benchmarks to Save Money

  Today, I would like to give you a primer on how to read the benchmark reports that are published by the major database and hardware vendors. Read More... Posted Monday, April 29, 2013 10:47 AM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Administration, Oracle, DBA, Monitoring, SQL Server 2012

• Read the New TPC Database Benchmarking Series

  Let's talk about database application benchmarking. This is a skill set which, in my opinion, is one of the major differentiators between a journeyman-level DBA and a true master of the trade. In this article published in my monthly column at Database Read More... Posted Monday, April 22, 2013 2:17 PM by KKline | 2 Comments Filed under: Performance, Best Practices, Administration, Oracle, DBA, Monitoring, SQL Server 2012

• Timewarp: What Is a Relational Database?

  These days, relational database management systems (RDBMSs) like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle are the primary engines of information systems everywhere, particularly for enterprise computing systems and web applications. Though RDBMSs are now common enough to trip over, it wasn’t always that way. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2012 3:23 PM by KKline | 23 Comments Filed under: Trends, Administration, Opinion, Database Design, Oracle, Hadoop, NoSQL, MySQL, Architecture, data quality, DBA, SQL Server 2012